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• JTA EXCLUSIVE: Greek telethon for Gaza hospital a scam

  July 12, 2009 8:38pm

  In a JTA investigation, Athens correspondent Jean Cohen discovers that a six-hour telethon in Greece that raised $1.67 million for a Christian Palestinian hospital allegedly destroyed by Israel was a scam: The hospital never existed. Now Palestinians are demanding to know where the money will be spent.

• Greek neo-Nazi acquitted of Holocaust denial

  March 29, 2009 4:26pm

  An Athens appeals court acquitted a well-known Greek neo-Nazi of Holocaust denial.

• Greek weekly calls Jews ‘Christ killers’

  January 6, 2009 12:08am

  A weekly Greek newspaper calls Jews “Christ killers” in an editorial about the Gaza conflict.

• Greek politician compares Israel to Hitler

  December 29, 2008 9:23pm

  The leader of a far-right political party in Greece compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to Hitler.

• Greek weekly stresses Madoff’s Jewishness

  December 23, 2008 8:15pm

  A Greek newspaper in a front-page headline called Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme “The Jewish bond.”

• Pilgrims return to Gaza unscreened

  January 2, 2008 10:00am

  Palestinian pilgrims returned to the Gaza Strip from Egypt in defiance of Israel’s demand to screen them for contraband.

• Sarkozy’s Greek-Jewish roots

  January 2, 2008 10:00am

  A new book describes the Greek-Jewish roots of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

• Filmmaker admits ‘Palestine’ gaffe

  January 2, 2008 10:00am

  The filmmaker behind “In the Valley of Elah” acknowledged that he erroneously described the biblical site’s location as “Palestine.”

• Israeli forces kill 6 in Gaza

  January 2, 2008 10:00am

  Israeli forces killed six Palestinian gunmen during a raid deep in the Gaza Strip.

• Lantos to retire

  January 2, 2008 10:00am

  U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor elected to the U.S. Congress, is retiring because he has cancer.